SPORTS

Junior challenge football semifinals today
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, January 22
Sanjay Public School, Sector 44 will take on Chandigarh Football Academy (Red) in a semifinal match tomorrow in the ongoing Chandigarh Junior Challenge Football Cup (under-16) Tournament played here today at the Sector 42 Sports Complex. In the second semifinal, Chandigarh Football Academy (Blue) will clash with Mehar Football Academy, Kurali.

Earlier, in the quarterfinal matches played today, CFA (Red) downed Coaching Centre, Nawanshahr, 3-0. In the 10th minute, Ravinder scored first goal in 17th minute while Randeep struck another goal in 33rd minute. After lemon break, Sukhwinder scored third goal for his team in the 47th minute.

In the second quarterfinal, SPS-44 thrashed Coaching Centre, Ambala, 4-0. Sushil Kumar scored two goals in 10th and 65th minutes, while Jagdeep and Ajay scored one goal each in the 40th and 55th minute of the play, respectively.

In the third quarterfinal, Mehar Academy, Kurali, edged past DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8, 3-2 which was a well contested tie. Ajay of Mehar Academy scored first goal in the sixth minute followed by another goal, also by Kurali player Amit Kumar in the 12th minute. However, Harminder Singh of DAV school reduced the margin when he scored a goal in the 33rd minute. After interval, Harminder again scored an equaliser for DAV school in 50th minute of play. The winning goal was scored by Amit of Mehar Academy in 62nd minute.

In the last quarterfinal tie, CFA (Blue) got the better of DAV school, Kurali, 2-0. Jagdeep of CFA struck with first goal in the 17th minute and another goal in the 19th minute.

Nominated: The members of the Chandigarh Roller Skating Association (CRSA) has nominated Ms Madhu Bahl, Principal of KB DAV Centenary School, Sector 7, as the new chairperson of the CRSA for another term of four years.

Citing reasons for appointing Ms Bahl as the new head, Mr Jagpal Singh, President of the CRSA, said the hardwork done by Ms Bahl in giving boost to skating in the city and region was praiseworthy. He said already she has been working as the chairperson of the roller hockey wing of the Roller Skating Federation of India (RSFI) and in the past initiated the move to hold the national roller hockey camps in the international specification skating rink at the KB DAV School.

Sports day: The annual junior sports day of Shishu Niketan Public School, Sector 43-A, Chandigarh, was held on Saturday on the school premises.

The programme began with a welcome song followed by wide-ranging sports events like tricycle race for the pre-nursery students to races such as fruit in the basket, balloon race and three-legged race’ for students up to Class II.

The lemon in the spoon’ race for the mothers was perhaps the most closely contested event, as it needed balancing skill as well as speed.

Mr Vijay Pal Singh, DSP, Chandigarh, was the chief guest on the occasion. He distributed the prizes and spoke on the need for an allround development for the students. The founder director of the school, Ms S. Khorana, concluded the function with a vote of thanks.

Cricket meet: Spice XI will take on Airtel CMTS in the inaugural match of the first edition of the Punjab Telecom Operators Friendship Cup Cricket Tournament to begin at the PCA Stadium, Mohali, on Sunday at 9 a.m. The second match of the limited overs tie, Hutch XI versus Tata XI, would be held at 12.30 pm.

As many as eight telecom operators of Punjab have staked their claims for the top honours.

The matches will be played on week-ends on the league-cum-knockout basis.

ADMINISTRATION

City’s oldest building likely to be demolished
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 22
One of the oldest buildings in Chandigarh, which originally housed the offices of the Chief Engineer, in Sector 19, faces uncertain future. Re-modelling of the Sector 19-B by the planning wing of the Chandigarh Administration means the building has to be demolished to accommodate more houses and also to create fresh alignment for the road.

Interestingly the office of the Engineer–in–Chief, PWD, Haryana, is presently based here. An annexe of the same building houses the office of the Haryana Tax Tribunal and also the office of the Executive Engineer of the Chandigarh Administration.

It is Haryana officials which have reminded the administration of the building’s potential to be a heritage building. The Haryana office of the PWD will be shifting out once its new building in Sector 33 is ready, however, there is the need to save the old building from demolition, say Haryana officials.

The building once housed the office of first Chief Engineer of Chandigarh P.L.Verma. The office of the Chief Engineer, which is now located in the UT Secretariat in Sector 9, came up later in the 1980s.

In the past two weeks the alignment of the road in Sector 19-B has been changed partially to accommodate a house which was recently auctioned.

Mr Dinesh Goswami, who has been living in the sector for the past 35 years, said: “The road has been curved in such a manner that it has become a death trap. There was no need to re-align the road. It was the finest intra-sector roads in the city.”

Even the alignment, which was carried out earlier, is not final. It will have to be changed again. Another resident said the houses should have been constructed around the building and the road could have stayed the way it was earlier.

The newly made alignment is such that it abuts the verandah of one of the annexe buildings, making it dangerous for passers-by.

Anti-encroachment drive from Jan 24
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 22
The Estate Office will start removing encroachments from January 24. An enforcement team, led by Mr S.K. Setia, Land Acquisition Officer, has briefed the traders in the markets accordingly.

The Estate Officer, Mr Arun Kumar, has asked the traders to cooperate in removing the permanent encroachments and making both the markets people friendly. He also cautioned the traders not to get misled or misguided by certain unscrupulous elements with vested interests, trying to create confusion.

The Deputy Commissioner has also requested the traders not to pay any bribe to any one connected with the affairs of the market committee, which claims to provide protection.

The Estate Officer further said the law shall take its own course and anyone taking law into his hands, would be doing it at his own risk.